Do these people really believe the crap they are spouting? I don’t think they do for the most part.
The Democrat party of 1960 was far far more conservative than the Republican party of today.
Can anyone imagine a 1960s era politician supporting homosexual marriage?
‘Can anyone imagine a 1960s era politician supporting homosexual marriage?’
No, because Homosexual marriage is an oxymoron. It is a fake statement. There is no such thing as homosexual marriage and calling two same sex people who decide to partner a married couple doesn’t make it so.
Both parties in 1960 operated in a country that no longer exists today.
I disagree with that, when you go back and look at what they wanted to get done in the coming years, they were radically left wing underneath the surface.
“(Ben Bradlee — JFK told me that “he was all for people’s solving their problems by abortion”.”
Ronald Reagan labelled JFK a “Marxist” in 1960 in a letter to the vice president, offering his services to help defeat JFK.
“”I do not include Kennedy’s acceptance speech because beneath the generalities I heard a frightening call to arms. Unfortunately he is a powerful speaker with an appeal to the emotions. He leaves little doubt that his idea of the “challenging new world” is one in which the Federal Govt. will grow bigger & do more and of course spend more. I know there must be some short sighted people in the Republican Party who will advise that the Republicans should try to “out liberal” him. In my opinion this would be fatal.””
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“One last thought,— shouldn’t some one tag Mr. Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with it’s proper age? Under the tousled boyish hair cut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Govt. being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his “State Socialism” and way before him it was “benevolent monarchy.”
From unionizing government, to Vietnam, to the 1965 Immigration Act, even the homeless, JFK was the end of us.
“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s. In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960. In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin. After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.” Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”